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A principal reason for opposing slavery's expansion was a fear of competition with Southern slaveholders.
A principal reason for opposing slavery's expansion was a fear of competition with Southern slaveholders.
The main reason the Union fought in the war was to keep the Southern states in the Union. Another reason was to abolish slavery.
The southern states were apposed to the abolishment of slave trade and slavery. This one of the major reason for the escalation of the war.
When they wanted to sign the Declaration of Independence the only way the southern states would sign is if slavery was still legal
one is slavery two is the election of Abraham Lincoln and three is the rights of the southern states.
In Defense of Reason was created in 1947.
When they wanted to sign the declaration of independence the only way the southern states would sign is if slavery was still legal
Slave owners would almost always defend slavery. Slaves were their workers, after all, and they needed to produce food, tobacco, and cotton (especially in the King Cotton years). Some slave owners did have it just as bad as the slaves, or owned a few, and they actually were a bit nicer to those slaves and probably didn't care much for slavery. But a vast majority of slave owners defended slavery; hence the reason for the Civil War.
In Defense of Reason has 611 pages.
It can easily be said that when all the other reasons for the Southern rebellion are cast aside, slavery was a key issue. Or, to put the answer in a different light, if there was no slavery in the US in 1860, there would never have been a civil war.
There is no justifiable reason for slavery to be legal.